We don't repeat the same purchases each week, but proteins we buy regularly/usually have in the freezer are:

Ground chicken
Boneless skinless chicken breast
Ground beef
Beef tenderloin
Flank steak
Ground pork
Sausages (usually some Italian, some breakfast, and andouille or chorizo)
Shrimp
Salmon

Items we buy. but much less often:

Pork tenderloin
Steaks
Duck breasts/quarters
chicken thighs
Brisket
Short ribs
Snapper
Scallops

Some alternatives that are cheaper and easier: I try to have a dish each week with sausage--my wife and daughter have loved our beer brats/sauerkraut/german potato salad night. We kale/potato/lemon sausage (chicken/apple) dish that's fantastic. Sausages are flavorful and cheap! Pork tenderloin with polenta (there's a cooks illustrated recipe where you dip it in corn starch that turns out really well). Hanger steak with fries (oven bake them but add a little olive oil so they crisp up like they've been in a fryer). Duck legs braised with vegetables.

I buy meat when it’s on sale and I will break it down and freeze it.

Pork tenderloin - cheap and cheerful. I like to make jerk pork (just marinade the whole tenderloin) or cut into cubes and marinade in evoo/lemon juice/oregano for a Greek style.

Pork chops - cheap again. I pound them flat for schnitzel or slice thin for stirfry. DH doesn’t like just plain pork chop but I’d be fine with that.

Chicken breast or thighs, spicy Italian sausages, ground beef and whatever steak I can find on sale usually rounds out the fresh meat.
Frozen salmon, pre portioned
Frozen shrimp and scallops, a lot of times I can find these on 2 for 1 or buy 2 get on free.

We eat meat only 1-2x a meat. It's not healthy to eat meat daily.

I've bought meat in bulk (whole pig, quarter cow) which really teaches you to use every cut. I don't always do that, but I do walk through the store with an eye to "what kind of meat have we not had in the last 2 weeks?" and buy that.

Some of my favorites are:
Pork chops
Pork shoulder / butt
Pork tenderloin or boneless loin roast
Chicken thighs, bone-in or boneless
Beef chuck roast
Beef flank steak or skirt steak
Beef round roast for rare, thin-sliced roast beef

And we also eat seafood 1-2 times a week.

I buy chicken wings a lot since we got an air fryer. So easy and quick to cook and they always come out delicious.

These are the ones that get used most often:

Boneless skinless thighs
Party wings
Chicken backs for broth
Pork butt / shoulder
Ground beef
Pork sausages
Pork ribs (back or at Louis)
Pork country style ribs bnls
Also minute steak or fajitas meat

Don’t use all in one week but this is general rotation. Less often split chicken breast, pork loin, beef steaks.

I appreciate all your comments so far!

I buy like one or two meats per week, lol, 3 at most.

But this week was: chicken andouille sausage (to have with moosewood lodge skinny Tuesday red beans), ground beef (I made the NYT shepherd's pie recipe, but with ground beef instead of lamb, I hate lamb), and beef chuck for a Mississippi pot roast later in the week.

Last week I got a pork shoulder and braised it for hours and served one night with barbecue sauce, and then made burritos with some later in the week and also made lots of burritos to freeze.

Chicken thighs: bone in, skin on
Chicken thighs: boneless, skinless
Ground beef
Ground pork
Lamb shoulder chops or lamb shanks
Pork butt
Bacon
Sausages: variety
Beef chuck
Beef shank
Beef short ribs
Boneless beef short ribs
Oxtails

Obviously we don’t buy all this every single week but this is the rotation.

I think I want 7 whole ideas, but I won’t use all 7.

If I have 7 ideas to back down to 4-5, but then I can switch variety week to week.

7 seemed better than, say 10.

7 is a lot - i only buy chicken (boneless/skinless), beef (ground beef/steak), and sausages (only once in a while) plus seafood (mostly shrimp and salmon)

Op here, I also like meat variety because it hits on different expiration dates. Then I can plan my week in order of what I buy & when they expire

My subject line posted before I was done.

It would have read “meat variety for your weeknight dinners”

What 7 meats are you buying on repeat for dinners?

*I may not get all 7 every single week. We do some vegetarian nights, some breakfast-for-dinner (eggs, pancakes and fruit) nights for a super quick last-minute meal.

But give me a handful of ideas!! I’m tired of only picking up chicken and ground beef. Every recipe I come across seems to be ground beef or ground turkey.

I want a little more variety but that also seems do-able for weeknight dinners.